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Sumit SinghalSumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

New offices for a public institution had to be housed into an old existing structure. When placed inside a container that had been thought for different purposes it was an important condition to achieve a flexible functionality for public offices that would comply with present technology requirements for this kind of use and still embody the representational level of public architecture that was claimed by the theme .

Because of the scope of the work It was very likely that companies capable of carrying out its construction would not be locally sourced and subcontractors would need to look elsewhere for materials and workers. Thus building the technical solution required a simplicity and a possibility of executing and the consideration of the fact that important parts of the total of the building woul be done in workshops far from the site to facilitate the availability of components and increase execution speed.

Image Courtesy Alberto Varas & Asociados, arquitectos

The solution adopted comes out from a regularization of the upper part of the structure, eliminating water tanks and a concrete top slab, to wrap the building with a light metal roof frame finished in titanium zinc sheet.The roof plate continues vertically on one of the side facades of the building and on one of the dividing walls so that not only unifies its image but generates a high-rise portal in the public acces changing its scale and giving it a public profile in contrast to the conspicuous absence of contemporary public architecture that might dialogue with the old buildings of the past that exist in cities like Pehuajó.

Image Courtesy Alberto Varas & Asociados, arquitectos

This situation is similar to the one in the whole Province of Buenos Aires, which corresponds to other past historical periods that are evident in architectures such as the headquarters of the National Bank or the municipal or religious buildings that have traditionally shaped the spirit of the public , around the streets of our cities and towns within the province .

Image Courtesy Alberto Varas & Asociados, arquitectos

The emergence of a contemporary object in these traditional profile cities is not easy, however, to leave a different sign of the presence of the public corresponding to the current time, conveys the effect of a new image that sends from the public a message.of change and evolution , and an injection of modernity.